Berlin, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Authorities in a Berlin district said Friday that they have removed a statue symbolizing ...

Why the bronze figure of a girl in Germany is infuriating the Japanese government. In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women from 14 ...

A court in Germany has ordered the removal of a statue of a girl symbolizing those referred to as wartime comfort women in ...

The statue, which commemorates the “comfort women” of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. The Friedensstatue, or Statue of Peace in Berlin, Germany, ...

Over a year after the installation of a comfort women statue in Mitte of central Berlin, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to remove the statue. “Comfort women” ...

This file photo taken in July 2025 shows a "comfort women" statue installed on publicly owned land in the Mitte district of Berlin. (Kyodo) BERLIN (Kyodo) -- A district in Berlin has ordered a statue ...

Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...

At the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum last week, a group of people gathered around a small exhibit commemorating the life of Grandma Lee Ok-seon, who was one of the many victims of sexual ...